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If You Were Wondering, Yes, It's Still No Longer Raining In St. Louis
A legitimate question: Is this World Series ever going to end? We're not saying that we find it boring, because we (obviously) don't. It's just that the weather is bad bad bad; biblical bad, worse than last night's rainout. The forecast says a 50 percent chance of rain around game time, with incre...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your other appliances secretly plot to destroy you ... • College football: Clemson at Virginia Tech. You know what happens whenever these two teams tangle (seriously, please let us know, we have no idea). [ESPN] • Major League Baseball: World Series, Game 4, Detroit at St. Louis. Bu...

Someday, There Will Be The JayTheJoke.com Civic Center
In case you were wondering what the worst named stadium in American sports was, here you go: The Jobing.com Arena, the new home of the Phoenix Coyotes (and Arizona Sting, whoever the hell that is). So many directions to go with this name, we're just not sure where to start....

Leftovers: Chad Johnson, Talkin' Again
• Chad Johnson would like you to refer to him as "ochenta y cinco" in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. God, he rules. [Bengals.com] • As if you didn't know this already: Don't pay those idiots with the 900 numbers to give you football picks. [The Sports Pulse] • Could Dick Vermeil replace Dennis Gr...

Bored Cadets Remake "Rudy"
From the invaluable and irreplaceable Every Day Should Be Saturday comes this video, made by cadets at the Naval Academy to pump up their team — we guess — for the game against Notre Dame on Saturday. We're really not sure what we can do with this; should we, like, send them a Penthouse or something...

The Yearly John Rocker Award
Few baseball fans hate quite as well as fans of the New York Mets. They do it with panache, style, pure vitriol and hard-won experience. Yankees and Red Sox fans are almost too hated themselves to hate with much authority, and other teams' fans are just too nice. (Exception: Phillies fans, whose bli...

Welcome To The NBA; We Don't Want No Trouble
David Stern would like to remind you that, per the NBA's collective bargaining agreement, guns are not allowed in The Spectrum; or any other NBA facility. So just hand those over ... nice and slow ... and you can pick them up on your way out. Um, the one in your boot, too....

That's Nothing: We Once Got Busy In A Burger King Bathroom
Well, it's not exactly the greatest all-time bathroom stall story, but hey, it's Seattle, not Tampa: We'll take what we can get....

Free Darko Previews: Kobe Bryant
As established, we're dangerously close to the start of the NBA season, with all its drama storylines and sturm und drang and months of madness. To us, part of the beauty of the NBA is that its focus, while ultimately on the team, falls on the individual. The plight of one player becomes an epic t...

Match Your Hair Band To Your Oriole
Stepping in the Chevy Cobalt Transport To The Land Of Collective Experience — we like to try this from time to time — we present you this rockin' video from an up-and-coming band called Starship, which, apropos of nothing, decided to litter their video for "It's Not Over (Till It's Over)" with mid-8...

Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Toronto Raptors
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. So come with us now as we present five tiny tidbits on each team, just to get you in the mood. Today we continue with the Atlantic Division, so do us a favor and send your tips to [email protected]....

Blogdome: Cowboy QB Tale Of The Tape
• Who's the bigger man: Romo or Bledsoe? [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • The Pittsburgh Penguins are about to take over the planet. [Sports Montage] • Kind of some ominous news on Francisco Liriano. [Foul Balls] • Why ban Gary Glitter songs from sporting events? [Western College Hockey] • Some amazing video...

They May Take Our Lives, But They'll Never Take OUR PENIS!
Indiana police and Purdue campus security will be keeping a sharp eye on the student section at Ross Ade Stadium on Saturday. Why? This letter, received by the Purdue student newspaper on Tuesday, should explain things:...

How Freddie Spent His Weekend
In case you were wondering what former Philadelphia Eagles shitball Freddie Mitchell is up to ... he's out taunting fans at UCLA games from the stands! Hey, sure beats playing; we understand, Freddie....

The Extremely Serious Flag Football Team
Everybody has a great "Rec league opponent who takes the game WAY too seriously" story unless, of course, you are that rec league opponent who takes the game way too seriously, in which case, we're sorry, we'll try harder, we need to focus, yeah, you were open on that play, we know....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Figure skater Kimmie Meissner: Aren't you tired of getting hit on by all the male figure skaters? ... Hello? Anyone there? • 2 p.m. MLS with Josmer Altidore: How many times are you and your teammates planning to kick David Beckh...

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
If your lifelong dream has been to hang out with Dennis Rodman in Las Vegas two nights before Halloween, you are probably reading this in a mental care facility you just missed your big chance. (As many have mentioned in the comments.) Apparently not one of the most popular items in the history of...

Matt Leinart Produces Spawn
We'd like to formally welcome Cole Leinart, son of Buzzsaw quarterback Matt Leinart and former USC basketball player Brynn Cameron, to this rotating orb we call earth. Cole Cameron Leinart was born Tuesday night in California, and Leinart was there, which was nice, because he's not gonna be around f...

World Series Blogdome: Talkin' About Rain ...
Scanning the blogs following Wednesday's postponement of Game 4 of the World Series ......

Let Them Buy Gear
If you ever need a vivid example of the disconnect between the people who run the games we watch and us, the people who spend the money that allows them to do it, just try paying nearly $200 bucks for a World Series game that's in a rain delay....